Reliability and quality
The difference: experience, responsibility and reliable reports.
More than 20 years of experience and over 1 million long-term ECG analyses speak for themselves. Despite AI - or precisely because of AI - our community continues to grow significantly. Many practices, MVZs, outpatient departments and hospitals deliberately choose medically validated reports, clear responsibility and personal consultation.
| Decision point | LZEKG-Gemeinschaft Bodensee | AI systems |
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Contact person | 1 contact person | Depending on the system, sometimes one contact person for the device and another for the analysis. |
| Liability | We accept liability. | You remain liable and are required to check all analyses for correctness and correct them manually if necessary. |
| Quality assurance | Two-step quality assurance system: all relevant reports are reviewed and checked by a second cardiologist. | Usually no second cardiological review; checking and approval remain with you. |
| Reports | Our cardiologists assess rhythm, artefacts, pacemaker specifics, clinical context and urgency. | AI accelerates pre-analysis, but can be misled by noisy or artefact-rich recordings. Correct differentiation between AV blocks, SVTs with aberrant conduction, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter and atrial tachycardias is currently not possible with any system. |
| Farbvalidierung / Einstufung | Cardiological classification of reports into three categories: green, yellow, red. | Not available. |
| Follow-up questions | Cardiological follow-up questions on complex events are possible. | Usually not possible. |
| Workflow | ||
| Fitting time | Very fast. | Very fast. |
| Read-out | Signal quality, recording duration and ECG signal can already be checked during read-out. Motivation system for medical assistants with praise for very good signal quality. | Usually not available. |
| GDT | Data personalisation and re-import of the PDF report into the patient record are possible. | Usually not available. |
| Ghost mode and patient name | Ghost report with your letterhead is possible. GDPR-compliant stamping back of the full patient name including date of birth at the workstation is possible. | Usually not possible. |
| IGeL/GOÄ- Abrechnung | Successful IGeL self-pay concept, quickly implementable 1:1. Comprehensive and reviewed billing recommendations for all different recording scenarios. | Usually not available. |
| Technology | ||
| Holter device | Very small, robust Holter device with different fitting methods for optimal signal quality and patient comfort. | Usually critical fitting technique with closely spaced electrodes and many motion artefacts caused by pull on the electrodes. |
| Susceptibility to artefacts | Very light and flat. The device is attached with adhesive or a patch. Very few artefacts. | The devices are usually heavier and, above all, thicker. Movement therefore creates stronger leverage and pull forces with more artefacts, especially since the devices are usually not adhesively attached. |